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Message-Id: <11922276201219-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:16:42 -0700
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 38/75] sysfs: fix i_mutex locking in sysfs_get_dentry()
From: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
lookup_one_len_kern() should be called with the parent's i_mutex
locked. Fix it.
Spotted by Eric W. Biederman.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
fs/sysfs/dir.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index a0da2b0..54ca4bc 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -130,8 +130,10 @@ struct dentry *sysfs_get_dentry(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
/* look it up */
parent_dentry = dentry;
+ mutex_lock(&parent_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
dentry = lookup_one_len_kern(cur->s_name, parent_dentry,
strlen(cur->s_name));
+ mutex_unlock(&parent_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
dput(parent_dentry);
if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
--
1.5.3.4
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